Mary V was disgusted with the boys for the way they had acted.

She meant to tell Johnny that she thought his verses were very clever, and that she, too, was keen for flying.

And would he like to borrow a late magazine she had in the house, that had an article about the growth of the "game"?
Mary V did not know that she would have sounded rather patronizing.

Her girl friends in Los Angeles had filled her head with romantic ideas about cowboys, especially her father's cowboys.

They had taken it so for granted that the Rolling R boys must simply worship the ground she walked on, that Mary V had unconsciously come to believe that adoration was her birthright.
And then Johnny stepped out of the trail and passed her as though she had been a cactus or a rock that he must walk around! Mary V went hot all over, with rage before her wits came back.